Religion in the contemporary South : changes, continuities, and contexts / edited by Corrie E. Norman and Don S. Armentrout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norman, Corrie E., 1959-

Armentrout, Donald S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Religion.

Southern States.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2005]

Contents:

Part I: The old story : common themes from yesterday to tomorrow

Women and religion in the south : myth, reality, and meaning / Corrie E. Norman, Heather E. Barclay, and Nancy Hardesty

Pentecostalism at the end of the twentieth century : from poverty, promise, and passion to prosperity, power, and place / David G. Roebuck

A crumbling empire : is there a Baptist future in the south? / Bill J. Leonard

The persistence of evangelical denominationalism in the south and the case for denominational history : Alabama Baptists / Wayne Flynt

Imagining race and religion in Louisiana : Kasi Lemmons's Eve's Bayou and Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January novels / Carolyn M. Jones

Part II: The Bible belt loosens : religious diversity in the south today

From angels to zen : religion and culture in the contemporary south / Charles H. Lippy

Our lady of Guadeloupe visits the confederate memorial : Latino and Asian religions in the south / Thomas A. Tweed

The flowering of interest in southern Jewish history and its integration into mainstream history / Mark K. Bauman

Sweet tea and rosary beads : an analysis of southern Catholic at the millennium / Susan Ridgely Bales

Temples and beyond : varieties of Hindu experiences in the south / Steven W. Ramey

Islam in the new south city : an introduction to Muslims in America and Charlotte / Kathryn V. Johnson

Part III: Behind the red door : the Episcopal microcosm in the south

"The tradition club" : culture war, memory, and the reinvention of Anglican identity in the modern south / Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.

Quiet revolutionaries : stories of women priests in the south / D. Jonathan Grieser, Corrie E. Norman, and Don S. Armentrout

Sacrament and segregation : Episcopalians in the evangelical south / Donald G. Mathews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1572333618

OCLC:

55682470